GENOA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — More than 200 items belonging to “Little House on the Prairie” star Melissa Gilbert and her husband, Emmy-winning actor Timothy Busfield, have been purchased in […]
‘The Masked Singer’ Steadies In Week 3
Fox’s reality hit remains No. 1 for the night, leveling off after a drop in its previous episode. The Masked Singer drew a 2.2 rating in adults 18-49 and 6.89 million viewers, on par with the previous week’s 2.3 and 7.07 million.
PPI Offering Crime Fighting Duo At NATPE
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida-based company featured on the Lifetime show “Project Runway All Stars” is kicking off a new line of leather accessories as part of an effort […]
After an abrupt departure, former ESPN president John Skipper is trying to beat his former employer at its own game with DAZN (pronounced “da zone”), a subscription streaming service with an odd name and big plans to disrupt sports broadcasting.
Landmark football pre-game show Fox NFL Sunday will be inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Broadcasting Hall of Fame at the 2019 NAB Show. The induction will occur during the Achievement in […]
Sewee Entertainment has cleared the 50th Miss Black America Pageant in over 80% of the U.S., including primetime slots in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta and Detroit. Top […]
‘This Is Us’ Steady In Return
NBC’s This Is Us returned Tuesday and picked up pretty much where it left off in late November — both in terms of story and in the ratings. The CW, meanwhile, got solid premiere numbers from Roswell, New Mexico, a reboot of the 1999-2002 WB/UPN show Roswell.
Big Doings At NATPE: Clarkson, Hall, Vieira, Robbins
The presence of several new shows and their talent at NATPE next week should make for a livelier convention and reassure broadcasters about the health of syndication, one of the cornerstones of their business.
Viacom has laid off a number of staffers in its entertainment group, with the majority of the affected employees hailing from Paramount Network. A Viacom spokesperson declined to comment. But a source with knowledge of the situation that the number of affected employees was fewer than 20, or less than 2% of the entertainment group’s workforce.
TV personality Steve Harvey will host the NFL Honors show on Feb. 2, when The Associated Press hands out its individual league awards. The two-hour prime-time show airing on CBS […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — As the fifth-season adventures of “Grace and Frankie ” begin, viewers can rest assured there’s more to come. Series creator Marta Kauffman and Netflix said Tuesday that […]
Football Rules Ratings, But ‘Big Bang’ Energized
Fox won the week in primetime, averaging a hefty 11.35 million viewers. CBS had 6.5 million, NBC had 4.95 million, ABC had 3.84 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Ion Networks had 1.3 million, Telemundo had 1.1 million and the CW averaged 860,000.
Here’s when broadcast will wake up from hibernation with some fresh episodes and series.
Bob Costas’ legendary career at NBC is now officially over. “It’s all settled quietly and happily for all concerned,” Costas said. He will continue on the MLB Network, where he is set to be a big part of the Baseball Hall of Fame inductee announcement in the next week. He also will call about 20 games on play-by-play for MLBN. Plus, he is exploring doing a sports/news interview-style show.
CBS has set spring premiere dates for new drama series The Code, The Red Line, which will air as an eight-episode event series, and returning Ransom.
The stage star’s effervescent talents lent well to guest appearances on TV variety shows and specials, beginning with an appearance on The Milton Berle Show in 1948. She won an Emmy Award for the 1966 special An Evening With Carol Channing, and she guest-starred on such variety and comedy shows as The Red Skelton Show, The Carol Burnett Show, The Dean Martin Comedy Hour and Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (in a memorable pairing with another “daffy” blonde, Goldie Hawn).
Entertainment Mags Have A Happy New Year
The session ending Jan. 6, the week leading up to the Golden Globes and the traditional beginning of the annual awards season, saw strong rating increases for the entertainment magazines […]
‘The Passage’ Off To A Decent Start
Fox’s new drama The Passage got off to an OK start Monday night, landing the night’s top 18-49 rating among scripted shows and nearly matching the fall average for 911 in the same time period. The Passage drew a 1.3 rating among adults 18-49 and 5.22 million viewers, pretty well in line with the 1.4 and 5.85 million 911averaged on Mondays in the fall.
The Department of Justice is prepared to put the ball back in Disney’s court for unloading Fox’s regional sports networks, saving Disney from a fire sale and billions of dollars in losses, two sources with direct knowledge of the situation said. Justice is poised to allow Disney to spin off the control of Fox’s 22 regional sports networks to complete its $71 billion deal for Fox, one of the sources said, as opposed to finding an actual buyer.
